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Events on Wednesday 30 November 1853 1
1853Battle of SinopRussian fleet destroys Ottoman squadronOn 30 November 1853 a Russian naval squadron under Pavel Nakhimov destroyed an Ottoman fleet anchored at Sinop on the Black Sea coast. The one-sided defeat, with heavy Ottoman casualties, shocked Britain and France and helped push them toward direct intervention in the Crimean War. Contemporaries in Western Europe dubbed it the "Massacre of Sinop".